Remaindered Life and The Surrounds lend themselves to a generative pairing. They share the same attention to the disenfranchised and an expansive take on urbanization, which embraces the planetary extension of “globopolis” and “city-everywhere.” The act of reading the two books in tandem does not collapse their singularities, but it suggests a strong kinship in the rhythm of their writing. Neferti X. Tadiar and AbdouMaliq Simone both approach theory as a form of exacting poetic construction. There is a distinct scansion in the textual organization of their works. They progress through repeated returns to motifs that escape exhaustion and that lead, in Simone's musical rendering of his book's architecture, to new “trajectories of sonic possibilities.”1 As he emphasizes, narrative assemblages are a key component in the infrastructure of the everyday in a multiplicity of urban contexts. And, like Tadiar, he replicates in his writing the potency of these assemblages....
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